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CSS font-display

Category

CSS

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 60)

Intent stage

None

Summary

Adds the @font-face descriptor and a corresponding property for controlling how a downloadable font renders before it is fully loaded.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-fonts-4/#font-display-desc
• Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
• Safari: In development
• Web developers: Positive
• Tracking bug: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=530015

Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/CSS/@font-face/font-display

Samples: http://output.jsbin.com/nigahi/latest/quiet

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